Research done by Enrique Mendizabal shows that Latin American think tanks play various roles depending on their origins, historical development and relations to other policy actors.

In The Song the man who served him as his closest adviser was his vassal and kinsman Álvar Fáñez " Minaya " ( meaning " My brother ", a compound word of Spanish possessive Mi ( My ) and Anaia, the basque word for brother ), although the historical Álvar Fáñez remained in Castile with Alfonso VI.

This new law revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, especially the Crown of Aragon, unifying them under the laws of Castile, where the Cortes Generales ( Spanish legislature ) had been more receptive to the royal wish.

::: According to some authors, for instance José Mª Sbarbi, this proverb has its origin in an historical episode involving Sancho II of Castile.

Castile ( ) is a Spanish historical region of vague borders, which is the result of a gradual merge of the Kingdom of Castile with its neighbours to become the Crown of Castile and later the Kingdom of Spain when united with the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre.

In modern-day Spain, it is usually considered to comprise a part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north-west, and Castile – La Mancha and Madrid in the center and the central-south-west of the country, sometimes including Cantabria and La Rioja in the north as well, for historical reasons.

Navarre, a historical kingdom in its own right, has a culture that is mainly Basque in the north and closer to that of Old Castile in the south, especially in La Rioja and Aragon, in the south.

Since it was not a province with a separate historical regional identity but part of the cultural region of Castile, it was considered a natural province that would compose the soon-to-be Community of Castile – La Mancha.

Other alternatives included the incorporation of Madrid to the community of Castile and León ( the historical region of Old Castile ) or its controversial constitution as something similar to a " Federal District " or territory, emulating Mexico City, or Washington, D. C.

* Aragon, Castile and León, Castile – La Mancha, Extremadura, and the Valencian Community were granted autonomy as communities integrated by two or more provinces with common historical characteristics ;

Autonomous communities were to be created by one or more provinces with a distinct regional identity ; since Madrid was part of the historical region of Castile, assigned to New Castile in the 1833 provincial organization, it was first planned that the province of Madrid would be part of the future community of Castile – La Mancha ( which was roughly similar to New Castile, with the adding of the province of Albacete ) but with some special considerations as the home of the national capital.

The integrating provinces of Castile – La Mancha opposed such a special status, and after considering other options — like its inclusion to the community of Castile and León or its constitution as an entity similar to a federal district — it was decided that the province of Madrid would become a single-province autonomous community by appealing to the 144th article of the constitution, whereby the Parliament can authorize the creation of an autonomous community, even if it did not satisfy the requirement of having a distinct historical identity, if it was the " nation's interest ".

It was so constituted in 1983 and it comprises the historical regions of León and Old Castile ( Spanish: Castilla la Vieja ).

On 23 May 1200, at the age of 12, Louis was married to Blanche of Castile, following prolonged negotiations between Philip Augustus and Blanche's uncle John of England ( as represented in William Shakespeare's historical play King John ).

It is heavily influenced by the historical Spanish spoken in Castile.

The Fandango originated in Castile ( historical region ) | Castile.

As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about his movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth.

William poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and Geoffrey Chaucer.

The iconic association of the " knight " stock-character with the joust is thus historical, but develops only at the end of the Middle Ages.

Each civilization has a special unit that is unique to their civilization and is typically a slightly improved replacement of a standard unit ; these units usually have a historical basis ( for example: the Japanese unique unit, which replaces the standard knight, is the samurai ).

He is at once the gigantic eater of Turpin, the huge warrior eight feet high, who could lift the armed knight standing on his open hand to a level with his head, the crusading conqueror of Jerusalem in days before the crusades, and yet with all this the temperate drinker and admirer of St Augustine, as his character had filtered down through various channels from the historical pages of Einhard.

El Cid ( 1961 ) is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called " El Cid " who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.

The surname Zbyszko was only a nickname, which was given him by friends due to his bravery when he was a child-it was the name of a fictional medieval Polish knight from the historical novel " Krzyżacy " by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

The Giostra della Quintana is a knight ring Jousting tournament based on a historical event.

There was a real knight named Sir Nigel Loring at the time the novel is set, but the historical record supplied few details and his role in the book is largely Doyle's invention.

A second historical member of this family was knight Jan van Bouchout ( c. 1320 – 1391 ), grandson of Daniel.

* Governor Edmund Andros: Governor of the Dominion of New England, including Connecticut ; an officer of the King's Dragoons ; and a knight ( historical figure )

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Some scholars, such as Martin West, claim that " Homer " is " not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

* 201 BC – Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist, who has written historical plays ( fabulae praetextae ) that are based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events ( b. c. 264 BC )

Numerous stories depict Jinns, Ghouls, Apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally ; common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and his alleged court poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set.

One such cycle of Arabic tales centres around a small group of historical figures from 9th-century Baghdad, including the caliph Harun al-Rashid ( died 809 ), his vizier Jafar al-Barmaki ( d. 803 ) and the licentious poet Abu Nuwas ( d. c. 813 ).

Another is Claudia Rufina, a historical British woman known to the poet Martial.

Whilst some critics have accused Heaney of being " an apologist and a mythologizer " of the violence, Blake Morrison suggests the poet " has written poems directly about the Troubles as well as elegies for friends and acquaintances who have died in them ; he has tried to discover a historical framework in which to interpret the current unrest ; and he has taken on the mantle of public spokesman, someone looked to for comment and guidance ...

* Gnaeus Naevius, Latin epic poet and dramatist, who has written historical plays ( fabulae praetextae ) that are based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events ( b. c. 264 BC )

The French word troubadour was first recorded in 1575 in an historical context to mean “ langue d ' oc poet at the court in the 12th and 13th century ” ( Jean de Nostre Dame, Vies des anciens poetes provençaux, p. 14 in Gdf.

In his poem " Past Ruin'd Ilion ", English writer and poet Walter Savage Landor ( 1775-1864 ) wrote the line " Alcestis rises from the shades " as having a double meaning, evoking her rise from Hades while demonstrating the ability of enduring poetry to give her vitality, drawing her into the light from the shadows of historical oblivion.

Authorship of the poem is attributed to Ibycus on textual and historical grounds but its quality as verse is open to debate: " insipid ", " inept and slovenly " or, more gently, " not an unqualified success " and optimally " the work of a poet realizing a new vision, with a great command of epic material which he could manipulate for encomiastic effect.

The Period of Division with its many tragedies and dramatic historical developments inspired many poets and gave rise to some Vietnamese masterpieces in verse, including the epic poem The Tale of Kiều ( Truyện Kiều ) by Nguyễn Du, Song of a Soldier's Wife ( Chinh Phụ Ngâm ) by Đặng Trần Côn and Đoàn Thị Điểm, and a collection of satirical, erotically charged poems by a female poet, Hồ Xuân Hương.

Other notable historical Berkhamstedians have included the poet and hymn-writer William Cowper ( 1731-1800 ) and World War I General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien ( 1858-1930 ).

The lyrics of the national anthem, which allude to historical Mexican military victories in the heat of battle and including cries of defending the homeland, were composed by poet Francisco González Bocanegra in 1853.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ( 11 October 1825 – 28 November 1898 ) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like " Die Füße im Feuer " ( The Feet in the Fire ).

Peter Lamborn Wilson ( born 1945 ) ( pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone ( TAZ ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.

The year involved the deaths of at least several highly prominent writers, including among them the following: The late poet Oscar Wilde ( a " celebrity " poet in late-19th century western European society ), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( critical and acclaimed philologist of Weimar Classicism and one of the most famous German thinkers ), the English poet Ernest Dowson ( marking the death of one of the last notable poets of the Decadent movement ), John Ruskin ( one of the most important historical art critics and an influential essayist ), Francišak Bahuševič ( a literary pioneer of New Belarusian literature ), Stephen Crane, R. D. Blackmore and José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, often considered the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.